Muthukumar Rajamani : Interaction Designer/Manager, Bangalore

User Interaction on Touch Screen Mobile Phones

Gestures Tap Double tap Flick Drag Pinch open Pinch close Touch and hold Two-finger scroll

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Usability Tests on Mobile Phones

Here’s the executive summary of usability test findings conducted on 3 next-generation smartphones: the Nokia N95, the HTC touch, and the Apple iPhone. Users with no smartphone experience conducted a series of 8 tasks on each device in order to determine how the devices fared in terms of overall usability. The study also assessed user [...]

Using ethnography to design for BOP

Interesting read, on how Nokia used ethnography to design for BOP among other stuff like using ethnographers as user emissaries instead of brand emissaries. “”This sort of on-the-ground intelligence-gathering is central to what’s known as human-centered design, a business-world niche that has become especially important to ultracompetitive high-tech companies trying to figure out how to [...]

handheld.photo.eXperience

.Photo.eXperience { resolution: 2MPx; display: 3.5″; device: apple iPhone; mode: fullscreen; interaction: touchscreen; sensor : autorotate} > .Photo.eXperience { resolution: 7.2MPx; display: 2.5″; device: sony w 55; interaction: hard keys;}

Sun’s Design Blog

My xDesign team (Software Experience Design team + UCD Product team) is in the midst of setting up a design blog called design @ Sun. And for some shameless self promotion, i’ve been selected as a blog hero